To add to Sainters7's points:
- Ability to take pictures (crop, focus, etc.) using your cell phone (apparently it's titled iFruit). You MAY also be able to take short videos using your cell phone. All of which can be uploaded to Rockstar Social Club and your own social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
- There were a total of nine apps on your cellphone display: camera, internet, contacts, social media, a calendar, and an option to go back and replay individual missions.
- There are moths and insects in the world, which is very cool. Almost RDR-like.
- More info on heists: You need the right weapons and gear; you need to choose the right approach, whether it's brute force, or stealth, and plan out your tactics via a pre-mission corkboard; and you need to have hired the right crew for the right job - that's crew in addition to Michael, Franklin and Trevor. Choose to pay less and you get less qualified personnel; pay more, and you get more reliable drivers, gunmen and technicians - but they take a bigger cut.
- Small but notable combat mechanics have improved firefights as well: a combat roll gives you a faster route between cover, you now have a better view of oncoming targets thanks to a wider, Gears of War-styled field of vision, and you can run and gun - in third person - while still maintaining control of the reticule. (Which has also seen a couple of tweaks: it switches from white to red to identify an enemy now, and a tiny 'X' flashes over it when an enemy is dead.) This seems very much like the same controls as Max Payne 3.
- You can pick up hitchikers.
- The entire map will be open from the start rather than opening it in stages like SA.
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